Pastoral Resources

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.